“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.” IfsWayGivingYoungTurnsGirlSexPleasureAttentionBoysCareersReturnSexualityExpectedPopularityYoung WomenCareer Success Author:Cris Mazza
“Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.” IfsGivenCareersTeachCreativity Author:Jewel
“Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.” IfsMenWantCareersEvery ManCooperationCaptains Author:Walt Disney
“If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.” IfsWould BeOpportunityCareersLimitsChinese Author:B. D. Wong
“I felt if I didn't find anything, I would give up a scientific career altogether.” IfsGivingFeltCareersGiving Up Author:Simon LeVay
“If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.” IfsCareersSucceedTerritoryThick Author:Gracia Martore
“Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.” IfsWantWellsSometimesHardFilmFunGoalPayCareersGunSticksGood WorkPayday Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.” IfsMenGivingPoliticalCareersSuccessfulBalanceGiving UpMissions Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.” IfsFeelsBigsFunCareersCreativeFactorsBlissBe CreativeJuiceFollow Your Bliss Author:Kenny Loggins
“If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative.... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else.” IfsWorldWantYearsHardMightJobsPassionPayAttentionCareersCreativeSuccessfulFireHard WorkQuittingAround The WorldPay AttentionBeing SuccessfulPushingBe CreativeDeliciousDelicious Food Author:April Bloomfield
“Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenShowsHandsWould BeYoungMotherCareersSkyExampleInspireLimitsIncrediblesPursueAccomplishmentAccomplishedExecutivesYoung WomenWorkplaceSuperheroSky Is The Limit Author:Willow Bay
“As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.” IfsWantWellsBookMightHappensArtistSufferingNamesFeltBlackCareersNew YorkExampleMusicianJournalistReviewsHistorianQualifiedNew York TimesTenureWacky Author:James McBride
“I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit. Part of me thinks that's maybe the effect of being on two hit shows. I like to think that maybe it's more: You do the things you do, and you do the best you can, and that's all you can hope for, and don't worry too much if it's not it.” IfsThinkingLongTwoShowsBitsCareersWorryToo MuchEffectsLong TimeRelaxNervesDo The Best Author:Matt McGorry
“I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantMeanPersonsTwoDifferentDoneSongCareersRecordsBandMajorsMusicianBoxesAccomplishGrantedLabelsEgotisticalOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxChecklistsAerosmith Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career.” IfsKnowsTwoEnoughDreamActorsBornPoorCareersMinutesCarGrewLuckyGrew UpRaisedVillageBusBorn And RaisedGuatemala Author:Erick Chavarria
“If I worked 8 months on a deal and it didn't go through - I'd punch a wall, get depressed and change careers.” IfsDealsCareersWallMonths Author:Luis D. Ortiz
“I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.” IfsKnowsActorsFunCareersSceneProjectsFellowsNotesNotebookSpirals Author:Anna Chlumsky
“I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.” IfsThinkingKnowsPersonsStillsEyeJobsPoliticalNextCausesSimpleActingCareersMorningRedProfessionStableAuditionsDisappointingRed Eye Author:Corey Stoll